still broke; sometimes knitting

Day: August 21, 2009

There doesn’t seem much to say about this project: yarn and pattern came together so well, it practically knit itself. Though luckily not, otherwise I would have missed out on the tactile pleasure of such super soft silky merino.

I’d never worked with Sundara’s yarn before: undoubtedly expensive, but, I would argue, definitely worth it. This is the aran silky merino — it was heavenly, bunny soft and silky shiny. I’m so glad I have some more coming from her Year in Color offerings. Difficult to keep it financially responsible with so so much pretty wool.

This yarn, however, is from years ago. I don’t even remember when I bought it, only that I was still living in NJ apartment no. 2 (The University Housing Years), which puts it at about 2006/07. At the time, I had dreams of a sweater, so I have a couple of more skeins still to use.

As I didn’t want to dip into a third skein, I was a bit conservative about the lace repeats. Looking back — and with plenty of skein two left over — I think I could have slipped in one more repeat of the body chart before beginning the edging. As it is, it’s just shy of Perfect Shawl Proportions: wingspan of 48″, depth of 22″.